Hello!

After lurking on these fine forums for an eternity I felt that it 's time to become a bit more active

My name's Jonas, I'm a history student (Ancient History) from Germany. I've loved maps for as long as I can think, and I think that in fact a big part of what made me study history were beautiful (or sometimes dry and technical) maps of countries long gone (my father had several historic atlases). I've scribbled more than a few maps on the side (or more) of my uni notes, and when I found your wonderful forum and the great tutorials (a big Thank you! to the members here) I began to make some maps on the PC from time to time, but I never found too much time for it.

I've recently made a few maps by hand (ink + paper) for a friend, and while I'm still not anywhere near good, I hope I can work on getting better here!